Christiaan Barnard Quotes:
Ocupation: Surgeon
Life: November 8, 1922 - September 2, 2001
Birthday: November 8
Death: September 2
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.
topic: Heart, Men, Odds, Transplants, Difficult Decisions, Heart Transplant
